Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2010. The top ten films of 2010, by worldwide gross in United States dollars, as well as the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia grosses, are as follows:
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J A N U A R Y
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| Season of the Witch | Rogue Pictures | Dominic Sena (director); Bragi Schut (screenplay); Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Graham | [2]
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| Unknown White Male | Warner Bros. | Jaume Collet-Serra (director); Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell, Karl Gadjusek (screenplay); Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones | [3]
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| The Dilemma | Universal Pictures | Ron Howard (director); Allan Loeb (screenplay); Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly, Channing Tatum, Queen Latifah | [4]
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| The Green Hornet | Columbia Pictures | Michel Gondry (director); Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen (screenplay); Seth Rogen, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Jay Chou | [5]
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| No Strings | Paramount Pictures | Ivan Reitman (director); Elizabeth Meriweather (screenplay); Ashton Kutcher, Natalie Portman | [6]
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| From Prada to Nada | Lionsgate | Fina Torres (director); Fina Torres, Luis Alfaro (screenplay); Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega, Wilmer Valderrama | [7]
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| The Mechanic | CBS Films | Simon West (director); Richard Wenk, Lewis John Carlino (screenplay); Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland | [8]
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| Restless | Columbia Pictures | Gus Van Sant (director); Jason Lew (screenplay); Mia Wasikowska, Schuyler Fisk, Jane Adams | [9]
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| The Rite: The Making of a Modern Day Exorcist | New Line Cinema | Mikael Hafstrom (director); Michael Petroni (screenplay); Anthony Hopkins, Ciarán Hinds, Alice Braga | [10]
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F E B R U A R Y
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| The Roommate | Screen Gems | Christian E. Christiansen (director); Cam Gigandet, Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly, Alyson Michalka, Matt Lanter, Frances Fisher | [11]
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| Sanctum | Rogue Pictures | Alister Grierson (director); Andrew Wight, John Garvin (screenplay); Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield, Christopher Baker | [12]
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| Drive Angry | Summit Entertainment | Patrick Lussier (director); Nicolas Cage | [13]
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| Gnomeo and Juliet | Touchstone Pictures | Kelly Asbury (director); Rob Sprackling, John R. Smith, Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, Mark Burton (screenplay); James McAvoy, Emily Blunt | [14]
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| Just Go With It | Columbia Pictures | Dennis Dugan (director); Allan Loeb, Tim Dowling (screenplay); Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Brooklyn Decker, Nick Swardson, Dave Matthews | [15]
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| Untitled Justin Bieber 3D Project | Paramount Pictures | Jon Chu (director); Justin Bieber | [16]
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| Monte Carlo | 20th Century Fox | Tom Bezucha (director); Tom Bezucha, Maria Maggenti, April Blair (screenplay); Katie Cassidy, Leighton Meester, Selena Gomez, Andie MacDowell | [17]
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| Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son | 20th Century Fox | John Whitesell (director); Matthew Fogel, Randi Mayem Singer (screenplay); Martin Lawrence, Brandon T. Jackson, Jessica Lucas | [18]
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| Dream House | Universal Pictures | Jim Sheridan (director); David Loucka (screenplay); Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts | [19]
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| I Am Number Four | DreamWorks Pictures | DJ Caruso (director); Al Gough, Miles Millar (screenplay); Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Teresa Palmer | [20]
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| The Eagle | Focus Features | Kevin MacDonald (director); Jeremy Brock (screenplay); Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland | [21]
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| Hall Pass | New Line Cinema | Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly (directors/screenplay); Owen Wilson, Alyssa Milano, Jenna Fischer | [22]
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M A R C H
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| The Adjustment Bureau | Universal Pictures | George Nolfi (director/screenplay); Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, Terence Stamp, Shohreh Aghdashloo | [23]
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| Kids in America | Universal Pictures | Michael Dowse (director); Jackie Filgo, Jeff Filgo (screenplay); Topher Grace, Anna Faris, Michelle Trachtenberg | [24]
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| Rango | Paramount Pictures | Gore Verbinski (director); Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher, Alfred Molina, Ray Winstone, Harry Dean Stanton, Ned Beatty, Alanna Ubach | [25]
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| Battle: Los Angeles | Columbia Pictures | Jonathan Liebesman (director); Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Pena, Bridget Moynahan, Adetokumboh M'Cormack | [26]
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| Mars Needs Moms! | Walt Disney Pictures | Simon Wells (director); Seth Green, Mindy Sterling, Dan Fogler, Joan Cusack | [27]
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| Red Riding Hood | Warner Bros. | Catherine Hardwicke (director); Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Julie Christie, Gary Oldman | [28]
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| Beastly | CBS Films | Daniel Barnz (director/screenplay); Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen, Neil Patrick Harris, Peter Krause
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| The Dark Fields | Rogue Pictures | Neil Burger (director); Leslie Dixon (screenplay); Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish | [30]
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| The Lincoln Lawyer | Lionsgate | Brad Furman (director); John Romano (screenplay); Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, John Leguizamo | [31]
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| Paul | Universal Pictures | Greg Mottola (director); Nick Frost, Simon Pegg (screenplay); Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, Kristen Wig, Jason Bateman, Sigorney Weaver, Jane Lynch, Jeffrey Tambor | [32]
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| Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules | 20th Century Fox | David Bowers (director); Jeff Filgo, Jackie Filgo, Jeff Judah, Gabe Sachs (screenplay) | [33]
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| Sucker Punch | Warner Bros. | Zack Snyder (director); Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens | [34]
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A P R I L
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| Bad Teacher | Columbia Pictures | Jake Kasdan (director); Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky (screenplay); Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake | [35]
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| Footloose | Paramount Pictures | Craig Brewer (director/screenplay); Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid | [36]
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| Hop | Universal Pictures | Tim Hill (director); Russell Brand, James Marsden, Kaley Cuoco | [37]
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| Hanna | Focus Features | Joe Wright (director); Seth Lochhead, David Farr (screenplay); Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana | [38]
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| Rio | 20th Century Fox | Carlos Saldanha (director); Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez | [39]
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| Your Highness | Universal Pictures | David Gordon Green (director); Danny R. McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux, Michael Clarke Duncan | [40]
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| 15
| Scream 4 | Dimension Films | Wes Craven (director), Kevin Williamson (screenplay); Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, Nico Tortorella, Anna Paquin, Kristen Bell | [41]
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| Source Code | Summit Entertainment | Duncan Jones (director); Ben Ripley, Billy Ray (screenplay); Jake Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Monaghan | [42]
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| Water for Elephants | 20th Century Fox | Francis Lawrence (director); Richard LaGravenese (screenplay); Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz | [43]
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| African Cats | Disneynature | Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey (directors) | [44]
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| Born to Be a Star | Columbia Pictures | Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Stephen Dorff | [45]
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| Crazy, Stupid, Love | Warner Bros. | John Requa, Glenn Ficarra (directors); Dan Fogelman (screenplay); Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling | [46]
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| Madea's Big Happy Family | Lionsgate | Tyler Perry (director/screenplay) | [47]
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| Prom | Walt Disney Pictures | Joe Nussbaum (director); Katie Wech (screenplay); Danielle Campbell, Aimee Teegarden, Nicholas Braun | [48]
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| The Thing | Universal Pictures | Matthijs van Heijningen (director); Ronald D. Moore, Eric Heisserer (screenplay); Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joel Edgerton | [49]
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| What's Your Number? | 20th Century Fox | Mark Mylod (director); Jennifer Crittenden, Gabrielle Allan (screenplay); Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Zachary Quinto | [50]
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M A Y
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| Jumping the Broom | TriStar Pictures | Salim Akil (director); Arlene Gibbs, Elizabeth Hunter (screenplay); Paula Patton | [51]
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| Thor | Paramount Pictures / Marvel Studios | Kenneth Branagh (director); Mark Protosevich (screenplay); Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård, Jaimie Alexander, Colm Feore, Joshua Dallas, Tadanobu Asano, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Rene Russo, Kat Dennings | [52]
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| Bridesmaid | Universal Pictures | Paul Feig (director); Kristen Wiig | [53]
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| Priest | Screen Gems | Scott Stewart (director); Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Karl Urban | [54]
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| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Walt Disney Pictures | Rob Marshall (director); Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane, Penélope Cruz, Stephen Graham, Sam Claflin, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey | [55]
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| The Hangover 2 | Warner Bros. | Todd Phillips (director); Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha | [56]
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| Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom | Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation | Jennifer Yuh Nelson (director); Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Gary Oldman, Michelle Yeoh | [57]
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J U N E
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| Beginners | Olympus Pictures | Mike Mills (director); Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic | [58]
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| X-Men: First Class | 20th Century Fox / Marvel Studios | Matthew Vaughn (director); James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, Oliver Platt, Zoë Kravitz, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till, Edi Gathegi, Jason Flemyng, Bill Milner, Morgan Lily | [59]
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| Something Borrowed | Warner Bros. | Luke Greenfield (director); Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, John Krasinski, Colin Egglesfield, Steve Howey | [60]
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| Fast Five | Universal Pictures | Justin Lin (director); Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Jordana Brewster, Dwayne Johnson | [61]
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| Green Lantern | Warner Bros. | Martin Campbell (director); Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Tim Robbins | [62]
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| Cars 2 | Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar Animation Studios | Brad Lewis (director); Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy | [63]
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| Rise of the Apes | 20th Century Fox | Rupert Wyatt (director); James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Andy Serkis, Brian Cox, Tom Felton | [64]
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J U L Y
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| Transformers: The Dark of the Moon | DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures | Michael Bay (director), Ehren Kruger (screenplay); Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Ramon Rodriguez, John Turturro, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, Frances McDormand, Ken Jeong, John Malkovich, Tyrese Gibson, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Duhamel, Voices of Peter Cullen, Mark Ryan, James Avery, Hugo Weaving | [65]
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| One for the Money | Lionsgate | Julie Anne Robinson (director); Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, Liz Brixius (screenplay); Katherine Heigl, Daniel Sunjata, Jason O'Mara | [66]
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| Zookeeper | Columbia Pictures | Frank Coraci (director) Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Adam Sandler, Cher, Jon Favreau, Sylvester Stallone, Judd Apatow, Jim Breuer, Faizon Love, Bas Rutten, Donnie Wahlberg, Ken Jeong | [67]
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| 15
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Warner Bros. | David Yates (director); Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Sir Michael Gambon, Ciaran Hinds, John Hurt, Jason Isaacs, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch, Miriam Margolyes, Helen McCrory, Gary Oldman, Clemence Poesy, Miranda Richardson, Alan Rickman, Dame Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, Natalia Tena, Julie Walters, Mark Williams, Bonnie Wright | [68]
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| The Sitter | 20th Century Fox | David Gordon Green (director); Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka (screenplay); Jonah Hill | [69]
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| Winnie the Pooh | Walt Disney Pictures | Don Hall (directors); Jim Cummings, Tom Kenny, Craig Ferguson, Dee Bradley Baker, Peter Cullen | [70]
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| Captain America: The First Avenger | Paramount Pictures / Marvel Studios | Joe Johnston (director); Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving, Samuel L. Jackson, Sebastian Stan, Toby Jones, Dominic Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Neal McDonough, Stanley Tucci | [71]
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| Friends with Benefits | Screen Gems | Will Gluck (director); Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis | [72]
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| Cowboys & Aliens | Universal Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures | Jon Favreau (director) Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Noah Ringer, Clancy Brown, Wes Studi, Paul Dano, Keith Carradine, Adam Beach, Ana de la Reguera | [73]
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| Horrible Bosses | New Line Cinema | Seth Gordon (director); Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley (screenplay); Jason Bateman. Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey | [73]
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A U G U S T
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| The Smurfs | Columbia Pictures | Raja Gosnell (director) Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria, Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, Alan Cumming, George Lopez | [74]
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| 5
| The Change-Up | Universal Pictures | David Dobkin (director) Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman | [75]
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| The Darkest Hour | Summit Entertainment | Chris Gorak (director); Les Bohem, Jon Spaihts (screenplay); Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Rachel Taylor | [76]
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| The Help | DreamWorks Pictures | Tate Taylor (director/screenplay); Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney | [77]
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| 30 Minutes or Less | Columbia Pictures | Ruben Fleischer (director) Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride, Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Peña, Nick Swardson | [78]
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| Fright Night | DreamWorks Pictures | Craig Gillespie (director); Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Toni Collette, David Tennant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse | [79]
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| Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World | Walt Disney Pictures | Robert Rodriguez (director), Jessica Alba, Daryl Sabara | [80]
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| Final Destination 5 | New Line Cinema | Stephen Quale (director); Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, David Koechner, Miles Fisher, P.J. Byrne, Arlen Escarpeta, Meghan Ory, Tony Todd, Ellen Wroe | [81]
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S E P T E M B E R
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| Colombiana | TriStar Pictures | Olivier Megaton (director); Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay); Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan | [82]
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| The Apparition | Warner Bros. | Todd Lincoln (director); Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Julianna Guill, Luke Pasqualino, Suzanne Ford | [83]
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| Straw Dogs | Screen Gems | Rod Lurie (director); James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, Dominic Purcell, Walton Goggins, James Woods, Willa Holland | [84]
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| A Dolphin's Tale | Warner Bros. | Charles Martin Smith (director); Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman | [85]
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| 23
| Anonymous | Columbia Pictures | Roland Emmerich (director); John Orloff (screenplay); Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Rhys Ifans | [86]
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| Courageous | TriStar Pictures | Alex Kendrick (director); Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick (screenplay); Alex Kendrick, Kevin Downes, Ken Bevel | [87]
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‡ Films that achieved wide-release status after initial release
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O C T O B E R
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| Real Steel | DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures | Shawn Levy (director); Hugh Jackman, Kevin Durand, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Hope Davis, James Rebhorn, Dakota Goyo | [88]
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| Wanderlust | Universal Pictures | David Wain (director); David Wain, Ken Marino, Paul Rudd (screenplay); Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Malin Akerman | [89]
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| Warrior | Lionsgate | Gavin O'Connor (director); Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Jennifer Morrison, Nick Nolte, Frank Grillo | [90]
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| The Three Musketeers | Summit Entertainment | Paul W.S. Anderson (director), Andrew Davies, Alex Litvalk (screenplay); Logan Lerman, Christoph Waltz, Matthew Macfadyen, Milla Jovovich | [91]
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| Contagion | Warner Bros. | Steven Soderbergh (director); Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne | [92]
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N O V E M B E R
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| Tower Heist | Universal Pictures | Brett Ratner (director); Ben Stiller, Alan Alda | [93]
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| Puss in Boots | Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation | Chris Miller (director); Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis | [94]
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| 11
| Arthur Christmas | Columbia Pictures | Sarah Smith, Barry Cook (directors) | [95]
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| Immortals | Universal Pictures | Tarsem Singh (director) Henry Cavill, Stephen Dorff, Luke Evans, Kellan Lutz, Joseph Morgan, Freida Pinto, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas, Mickey Rourke | [96]
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| 18
| Happy Feet 2 | Warner Bros. | George Miller (director); Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon | [97]
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| The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 | Summit Entertainment | Bill Condon (director); Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner | [98]
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| Project X | Warner Bros. | | [99]
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D E C E M B E R
| 9
| Hugo Cabret | Columbia Pictures | Martin Scorsese (director); Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz | [100]
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| New Year's Eve | New Line Cinema | Garry Marshall (director); Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Garner, Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Julia Roberts, Bryce Robinson, Shirley MacLaine, Hector Elizondo, Emma Roberts, George Lopez | [101]
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| 16
| Alvin and the Chipmunks 3-D | 20th Century Fox | Jon Vitti (director); Jason Lee, Evan Rachel Wood, Zachary Levi, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Christina Applegate, Anna Faris, Amy Poehler | [102]
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| Mission: Impossible IV | Paramount Pictures | Brad Bird (director); Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner | [103]
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| Sherlock Holmes 2 | Warner Bros. | Guy Ritchie (director); Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Jared Harris, Stephen Fry, Geraldine James, Noomi Rapace | [104]
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| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Sony Pictures | David Fincher (director); Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright Penn, Max von Sydow | [105]
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| The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn | DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures / Columbia Pictures | Steven Spielberg (director); Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook | [106]
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| We Bought a Zoo | 20th Century Fox | Cameron Crowe (director); Matt Damon, Thomas Haden Church | [107]
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| The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made | Walt Disney Pictures | James Bobin (director); Jason Segel | [108]
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| War Horse | DreamWorks Pictures | Steven Spielberg (director) | [109]
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